"A prominent California farmer was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife in a remote mountain community in Arizona, the Navajo County Sheriff's Office said. Michael Abatti, 63, was arrested in El Centro and booked into jail on a first-degree murder charge. He is awaiting extradition to Arizona. Authorities say they believe he drove to Arizona on Nov. 20 and fatally shot Kerri Ann Abatti, 59, before returning home to California."
"She was found dead in her family's tree-shrouded vacation home in Pinetop, Arizona, where she moved after splitting with her husband. An attorney for Michael Abatti didn't immediately respond to an email and text message seeking comment. Authorities searched his home in far Southern California on Dec. 2 as part of the investigation into his wife's death. El Centro is a city of 44,000 people just"
Michael Abatti, 63, was arrested in El Centro and booked on a first-degree murder charge pending extradition to Arizona. Authorities believe he drove to Arizona on Nov. 20 and fatally shot his estranged wife, Kerri Ann Abatti, 59, who was found dead at her tree-shrouded vacation home in Pinetop after splitting from him. Investigators searched his Southern California home on Dec. 2 as part of the probe. Abatti is a longtime Imperial Valley farmer with family ties to regional agriculture and served on the Imperial Irrigation District board from 2006 to 2010. The couple married in 1992 and had three children.
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